Painters Must Speak Through Paint, Not Through

A Thing In Itself Never Expresses Anything. It Is The Relation Between Things That Gives Meaning To Them And That Formulates A Thought. A Thought Functions Only As A Fragmentary Part In The Formulation Of An Idea.

As A Teacher I Approach My Students Purely With The Human Desire To Free Them From All Scholarly Inhibitions, And I Tell Them, "painters Must Speak Through Paint Not Through Words."

A Work Of Art Is Finished, From The Point Of View Of The Artist, When Feeling And Perception Have Resulted In A Spiritual Synthesis.

A Work Based Only On A Line Concept Is Scarcely More Than A Illustration; It Fails To Achieve Pictorial Structure. Pictorial Structure Is Based On A Plane Concept. The Line Originates In The Meeting Of Two Planes ... We Can Lose Ourselves In A Multitude Of Lines, If Through Them We Lose Our Senses For The Planes.

Art Leads To A More Profound Concept Of Life, Because Art Itself Is A Profound Expression Of Feeling. The Artist Is Born, And Art Is The Expression Of His Overflowing Soul. Because His Soul Is Rich, He Cares Comparatively Little About The Superficial Necessities Of The Material World; He Sublimates The Pressure Of Material Affairs In An Artistic Experience.